The new theme layer

Drupal 8 comes with a completely new theme layer. The old theme layer was a big frustration for front-end developers and was far too complex. The most significant change of the new layer is Twig. Before diving into this new theming layer, let's take a closer look at the old one and sum up some disadvantages.

Maintainers

The Drupal 8 theme system is maintained by the following people:

• Alex Bronstein 'effulgentsia'
• Scott Reeves 'Cottser'
• Fabian Franz 'Fabianx'
• Joël Pittet 'joelpittet'
• Lauri Eskola 'lauriii'

Read more

• Blog post about the future of Drupal, a blog post by Larry Garfield.
• Drupal 8's new theming layer, a video interview with Joël Pittet and Scott Reeves.
• The "themer" role is a Drupalism, a blog post by …
• Rethinking Drupal’s Theme/Render Layer, a blog post by by John Albin.
• (meta) Convert all core *.tpl.php templates to Twig as singular patch